Geremia 44:3

3 e non vi è alcuno che abiti in esse; per la lor malvagità, che usarono per dispettarmi; andando a far profumi, ed a servire ad altri dii, i quali nè essi, nè voi, nè i vostri padri non avevate conosciuti.

Geremia 44:3 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 44:3

Because of their wickedness which they have committed to
provoke me to anger
The cause of this desolation was the wickedness they were guilty of; whereby they provoked the anger of God to bring this destruction on them. Sin is always provoking unto God; and though it may not be done on purpose to provoke him, which it sometimes seems to be; yet it eventually does, and is always the cause of punishment: God never punishes man without a cause, or for anything but sin: in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods:
the particular wickedness they were guilty of, and which was the cause of their ruin, was burning incense to idols, and worshipping them, than which nothing is more provoking to God: and it was an aggravation of their sin, that they were gods whom they knew not, [neither] they, you, nor your fathers;
what they were; from whence they were; their original, and perhaps not their names; however, did not know that they were gods; nor could they prove them to be such; nay, might know that they were not: and now, since this was the sin which brought on the destruction they were eyewitnesses of, it should have been a caution to them that they went not into the same idolatrous practices, which yet they did not avoid; taking no warning from such awful instances of the divine displeasure.

Geremia 44:3 In-Context

1 LA parola che fu indirizzata a Geremia, per rapportarla a tutti i Guidei, che dimoravano nel paese di Egitto, in Migdol, e in Tafnes, e in Nof, e nel paese di Patros, dicendo:

2 Così ha detto il Signor degli eserciti, l’Iddio d’Israele: Voi avete veduto tutto il male, che io ho fatto venire sopra Gerusalemme, e sopra tutte le città di Giuda; ed ecco, oggi son desolate,

3 e non vi è alcuno che abiti in esse; per la lor malvagità, che usarono per dispettarmi; andando a far profumi, ed a servire ad altri dii, i quali nè essi, nè voi, nè i vostri padri non avevate conosciuti.

4 E benchè io vi mandassi tutti i miei servitori profeti, del continuo per ogni mattina, dicendo: Deh! non fate questa cosa abbominevole, che io odio;

5 non però ubbidirono, nè inchinarono il loro orecchio, per istornarsi dalla lor malvagità; per non far profumi ad altri dii.